Kulayu [KULAY]
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Kulayu
Kulayu [kulaju]*
KulayuKulayu [kulaju]*
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Language type
Not specified
Species
Human/humanoid
About Kulayu
Kulayu is the language of a race of women made of living clay (clay women) who live on the main island of a distant volcanic archipelago. As an all-women group, their language assumes femininity.
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Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ | b bʲ | t | d | k kʲ | g gʲ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 | f fʲ | s | ʃ | ç | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
- word initial, allophone of /f/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | aʊ | ai | oi | ei |
Syllable Structure(C (y)) V (ɾ,n)
Syllables may begin with a consonant, MUST contain a vowel (monophthong or diphthong), and may occasionally end in ɾ or n but not both.
Syllables may begin with a consonant, MUST contain a vowel (monophthong or diphthong), and may occasionally end in ɾ or n but not both.
Stress informationStress is placed on the penultimate syllable, e.g., mata (mother) is /ma'.ta/ and phonyaka (volcano) is /ɸo.ɲa'.ka/, unless the final two syllables are both only vowels, in which case the third-to-last syllable is stressed, e.g., [example TK].
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Kulayu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 KulayuOrthography | ||||||||||
| a/a/ | b/b/ | by/bʲ/ | ch/t͡ʃ/ | d/d/ | e/e/ | f/f/ | fy/fʲ/ | g/g/ | gy/gʲ/ | h/h/ |
| hy/ç/ | i/i/ | k/k/ | ky/kʲ/ | l/l/ | m/m/ | my/mʲ/ | n/n/ | ny/ɲ/ | o/o/ | p/p/ |
| py/pʲ/ | r/ɾ/ | rr/r/ | s/s/ | sh/ʃ/ | t/t/ | u/u/ | w/w/ | y/j/ | ||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | ||||||||||
